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You would think that tech entrepreneurs would be hesitant to do business in China. Yet recently, China has seen its fair share of visits from tech industry heavyweights.

PALO ALTO, CA - OCTOBER 06: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (C) greets Facebook employees before speaking at a news conference at Facebook headquarterson October 6, 2010 in Palo Alto, California. Zuckerberg announced the addition of a revamped personal groups feature and the ability to download everything you have posted to Facebook. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Take Apple CEO Tim Cook for instance,who has been seen having business meetings in China, for what is rumored, may be a deal that could heighten the number of iPhone users in the country.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerbergwas also in China, for what is said to be a simple vacation; after all, Zuckerberg is dating Priscilla Chan—a Chinese-American. It is highly doubtful though, that Zuckerberg’s trip was solely for pleasure; especially given that the Facebook founder--who has expressed some interest in China--was also seen visiting a few internet companies: Sina, Alibaba, and Baidu.

Sure, internet billionaires have emerged from China. Yet it is still unproven, whether American internet moguls--usually avid supporters of technology freedom who do business in a country that supports online freedom--can actually find true success in China; with censorship that limits their businesses and their users. Online freedom? Ya don’t say.

Yet Facebook’s IPO paperwork filed suggests that the company may just try to enter the Chinese space: “…in the event that we are able to access the market in China in the future.” Sure, we don’t know yet whether the company will actually take the plunge into China, but we do know that Facebook is an ambitious company with an ambitious founder.

In this interview with Charlie Rose, the Facebook CEO says that his goal has always been to make the world an open place. He wants to avoid the slow-pace trap that hinders most technology companies. He wants to “move quicker.”

And Facebook is quick. Some would say that if any company could do it, Facebook would be the one.

But at what expense?

The same thing was said of Google. If anyone could do it, Google could.

Google too, wanted to enter the Chinese internet space in order to make the world a more open place. In 2010, Google publicly stated,

We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results.

But after four years in China, and major debacles intended to deter the company, Google blogged that it was no longer willing to censor its results in China; advising its users to install anti-spyware programs on their computers.